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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-36702

The "content" field in the "regular post" page of the "add content" menu under "dashboard" in htmly 2.8.1 has a storage cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. It allows remote attackers to send authenticated post-http requests to add / content and inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML through special content.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:19 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-36702

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Aug 2021, 19:15 UTC

The "content" field in the "regular post" page of the "add content" menu under "dashboard" in htmly 2.8.1 has a storage cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. It allows remote attackers to send authenticated post-http requests to add / content and inject arbitrary web scripts or HTML through special content.

osv:CVE-2021-36702
Complete source record
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